Adobe announced the upcoming availability of Flash 11 as well as AIR 3 on a variety of platforms, including Android, iOS (via AIR), BlackBerry Tablet OS, Mac OS and Windows, for early October.  The next Flash platform includes a new hardware-accelerated 3D rendering engine called Stage 3D that the company says is 1,000 times faster than Flash ...

A bug in the latest version of Skype for iPhone and iPod touch makes its users vulnerable to having their address book stolen just by viewing a specially crafted message. Simple solution: Don’t open text messages in the chat window, and check for a really quick update. Cross site-scripting vulnerabilities is one of the more ...

The popular family network MyHeritage is acquiring storage and backup service BackupMyTree LLC, a free and automatic backup service for family tree data.  The buy marks MyHeritage’s sixth acquisition, further expanding its technology and the types of services to be applied to its relatively niche but appealing market. Just a year after its launch, BackupMyTree has ...

Buddy Media, a company that provides Facebook Page and social media management tools to brands, announced today the launch of  ConversionBuddy, part of the Buddy Media social marketing suite that empowers global marketers to build and maintain relationships with consumers in a connections-based world. “We’re in a world where turning fans and followers into real ...

Sources say the cloud storage company Box(.net) has turned down a $550 million acquisition offer, according to reports. Rejecting a $550 million acquisition offer is not necessarily a wrong move for the in-demand company like Box, because it could indicate that the company is desirable and attract other for a richer offer. Co-founders Aaron Levie and Dylan Smith moved ...

Launching just 12 weeks ago, Fab.com is already upping the ante with new ”Online Pop-Up Shops,” giving the popular retail pop-up shops in the real world a digital runaround.  The flash sales site’s membership has quickly grown to more than 600,000 members, who have placed more than 80,000 orders of more than 160,000 products from more than 500 design ...

Huawei Technologies appears bent on capturing the Nigerian smartphone market via its Ideos smartphone, which it successfully launched in Kenya earlier this year.  The company says it sold 60,000 Ideos phones in the country in the first half of the year, accounting for nearly 50% of all smartphones sold in the country. According to The Wall Street ...

Google is looking to make its Apps more collaborative, leveraging more people to do some of its heavy lifting, and enabling teamwork through the cloud.  This week Google launched the Regional Expert Reviewer program from Google Map Maker. If you’re unfamiliar with Google Map Maker, it’s an offering from the company where users can add their ...

For the past few weeks, we’ve been hearing about these mobile patent wars defining the future of the mobile industry.  The most recent development is Apple’s success after filing for an injunction with the German courts, forcing Samsung to remove the Galaxy Tab 7.7 from the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin, Germany.  The court order ...

Android Market has shown some real growth over the last year, and there’s no doubt that at some point this had to happen.  Or, at least, it will.  Since the launch of the iTunes App Store by Apple in 2008, no other app market has been so close to beating it than Android has become. Android ...